Handle for velocipedes



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H. H. LUSGOMB. HANDLE FOR VELOGIPEDES.

Patented Oct. 20, 1896.

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HENRY H. LUSCOMB, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTIOU".

HANDLE FOR VELOCIPEDES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,877, dated October 20, 1896.

Application filed November 5, 1895. Serial No. 568,016. (No modelh To (oil whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY HI LUSCOMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles for Velocipedes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to handles for velocipedes, more especially of that class known as bi.cyeles; and the object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive and serviceable handle adapted to be quickly and easily attached to the handle-bar of such wheels.

A further object of the invention is to provide a compressible or elastic handle composed of strips or elongated sections or segments suitably secured together along the longitudinal edges thereof.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a handle composed of sections or segments of suitable elastic or yielding material, having a bore, the wall of said bore having a bearing engagement with a handle-bar or other supporting member at certain points only thereof and a non-engagement therewith at other points, whereby said handle will be universally compressible.

A further object of the invention is to pro-. vide a handle composed of suitable strips or elongated sections or segments of suitable elastic or yielding material connected by their longitudinal edges to each other to form an approximately-circular handle compressible in all directions, whereby the hands of the rider will be cushioned against the jars and shocks incident to a wheel of this character.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view showing a portion of the handle-bar of a veloeipede having this improved handle secured thereon. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken in line a a, Fig. Fig. 4. is an under side view of one of the strips or elongated sections comprising this improved handle; and Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken in line b b, Fig. 4, and diagrammatically showing the position of one of the sections or segments comprising the handle relatively to the curvature of such handle.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The handle, (designated in a general way by A,) in the preferred form thereof herein shown and described, is constructed of any suitable number of independent strips or elongated sections or segments 12 necessary to surround a handle-bar B or supporting member of a wheel or other article, and constructed of any suitable elastic or yielding material, united with each other adjacent to their longitudinal edges to thereby form a compressible or elastic handle, preferably approximately circular and having a suitable bore for the reception of the handlebar or supporting member, the wall of said bore having a bearing engagement at different points on said handle-bar or supporting memher and a non-engaging portion intermediate of such engaging portions.

It will be understood that the particular shape of the handle is immaterial, as the strips or sections 12 may be united to form any desired shape of handle and likewise may be constructed of any suitable elastic or yielding material, preferably of cork, however. Each of the strips 12 preferably has its longitudinal edges or sides 13 substantially straight from end to end thereof and beveled or inclined toward each other, whereby each section forins substantially a wedge, and whereby the sections can closely engage each other and be united along such beveled longitudinal edges by adhesion, any suitable material being used for this purpose, such as cement, and thereby form an approximatelycircular handle having a suitable bore 15 for the reception of a handle-bar B of a wheel or other supporting member or article. lVhen the sections are thus united, the under side of each section centrally of the longitudinal sides thereof, as 21, will alone have a bearing engagement with the tubular handlc-bar or supporting member substantially the entire length of the section, whereby the handle will have the portions thereof intermediate of such engaging portions 21 out of engagement with said bar or member, and whereby the handle will yield when under compression at those portions adjacent to its longitudinal edges or sides 13 and intermediate of such bearing-faces 21, and whereby the hands of the rider will be cushioned against the jars and shocks incident to a wheel of this character.

As a means for securing the outer ends of these sections together and also closing the bore of the handle a plug 16, of any suitable material and construction, preferably of the same material, however, as the strips 12, is inserted into the bore of the handle, thereby closing the same, said plug 16 being secured therein by cement or by any other suitable means, the outer end of the plug preferably being curved to form a continuation of the ends of the handle-sections.

The outer surface of the handle is properly turned or ground to give it any desired shape, (shown herein as slightlytaperingfrom its middle to its ends and of circular form,) and the inner end of the handle is rounded otf in any suitable way.

The handle is preferably secured onto the handle-bar B or other supporting member'by means of cement; but it may be secured thereon, if desired, by frictional engagement therewith or by any other suitable means.

It will be understood that this handle may be constructed of any desired number of strips or elongated sections or segments having their longitudinal edges united, whereby they are adapted to surround a supporting member or handle-bar. For instance, such sections may be made of very narrow widths, whereby a comparatively large number will be necessary to construct the handle,or they may be made comparatively wide, whereby only a small number thereof will be necessary to construct the handle. It. is also obvious that the size of the handle depends upon the size of the supporting member or handlebar onto which it is to be placed.

It will be understood that any desired yielding or elastic material, whereby the handle may be compressed and returned substantially to its normal condition after such compression is removed, may be used, and that any desired means for securing such sections together adjacent to the longitudinal edges and also at the ends thereof or any suitable and desired means for securing said handle to the handle-bar or to the supporting member may be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A handle composedof a bar and a series of longitudinal strips or sections united at their edges, the inner, flat faces of said sections constituting tangents to said bar.

2. An elastic handle having a bore adapted to receive a handle-bar or supporting member, and comprising independent strips of Wedge-shaped cross-sectional form united at their edges, and having their inner faces tangentially disposed relatively to said handlebar or member, thereby leaving spaces intermediate ot' the bar or member and the handle at the points of juncture of the strips.

HENRY H. LUSCOMB. lVitnesses:

FRED. J. DOLE, BENTON N. PARKER. 

